Could easily be chief

i've noticed recently how bad they seem to have become. but i wa sin newcastle last weekend cycling and the roads i was on up there are far worse than they are here

FFS, the global financial markets are in meltdown, basically the world i going to in a handcart and someone's moaning about a few potholes?

Try doing what I've managed for the last 40 years: drive to the conditions, keep your eyes on the road and you shouldn't have too many problems.

Is Cod'ead the moodiest poster in RLfans history?

Willerby Road from Derringham roundabout to Springhead Lane is a terrible surface. Potholes everywhere. Dread to think of traffc problems if they ever try to fix them though.

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Hedon Road is the responsibility of the Highways Agency, which is why i'm surprised they haven't been sorted out. Most of the damage has been caused by lorries tipping over on the roundabouts, mainly due to them driving like idiots.

thats bollox, its down to them laying a poor surface and its crumbling by the day

i nearly ended up in the barriers on marfleet roundabout the other day after hitting 2 pot holes doing only about 20mph

All hail Sir Cod'ead.

FFS the roads mentioned ARE that bad and the potholes can't be avoided without causing an accident.

I've known smoother speed bumps.

I've driven several vehicles with a higher side than an arctic lots of times down Hedon Road. I've never tipped one over on a roundabout.

Go and stand down there for a couple of hours, and see how fast some of the wagons go down there.

Also, the ripped-up surfaces on the roundabouts just happen to be the exact places where lorries came to rest after tipping over.

Lorries only tip over because of 3 factors. Extremely high winds (only on exposed routes, so this can be discredited), high speeds or poorly secured or distributed loads. Also add to the fact that 4 of the tip-overs were from lorries belonging to one local haulage company.

How high is an artic?

Last time I looked there were no height restrictions on any load

The surfacing is shot on hedon road, they have had trouble with is since the day it was put down. and not just in the areas where "vehicles came to rest"

Poor design (of the highway) can also contribute to vehicles tipping over.

OK so most seem to agree the roads are bad. The wider point I was trying to make was about the budgets that seem to me to be misplaced.

Drive from Hull to With or Hornsea for example and you will see a lot of plastic chevrons that have recently been placed on just about every corner no matter how dangerous it appears to be. These blow over in the slightest gale and need constant cost of replacement and maintenance. Seems its standard to place chevrons whether needed or not. There is paint everywhere on the roads - not just on the corners. To me its getting past a joke. Whoever is responsible seems to think we cant negotiate around a bend or read road signs without these guides to help us. Speed humps springing up everywhere. Speed humps that also need to be maintained and at a rate more frequent than a flat road.

We seem to have lost the plot where road safety is concerned. Spend the monies allocated for these needless (imo) projects and spend the money on keeping the roads in our county safe for road users.

They dont fund it. I agree that the roads are shocking around Hull though. Anlaby road near the Hospital is terrible.

you'll find the chevrons tend to go missing when someone drives into them, hence its preferable they are;

1) Collapsible rather than solid steel posts set in concrete
2) There to warn people of the corner.

its also ludicrous to say they are on "just about every corner".

Speed humps only need to be maintained because people drive over them to fast and take lumps out of them with their exhausts or barry boy front skirts.

To be fair i have not noticed anything wrong with the roads, it may be down to driving in Bulgaria the last few years where a pothole is a few feet at least

The roads in Hull are awful, all the roundabouts are a disgrace (particularly all the ones down Hedon road!)
I have noticed that they are resurfacing a few places though - but they wont do the majority.

End of the financial year! All of the pavements near my house have just been re-done, even though most didnt need it.

There you have, you might be still paying your council tax, but because of the global financial crisis its ok for these things not to get done.

you're obviously at the posh end of the street then. No sign of sparkling new black DBM near me.

Go for a drive around Liverpool, I think the RAF practice bombing during the night.

Having just paid £500 to get my car through its MOT......I can totaly agree with everyone on here. The mechanic/examiner that tested my car told me the reason behind the excess wear and tear to my Mitsubishi Delica was definately due to a mixture of road wear and (mostly) speed bumps!!! He is dead against these monstrosities even though they line his pockets

All they do is turn a normal twokker into Bo Duke....."YeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaa!"

Hedon rd is a joke . It's a fairly new surface on it and it looks like it's been carpet bombed. Davey 37 pointed out just one section , The inside lane on the prison roundabout . How anyone on a motorbike hasn't come off there is a miracle.
The bridges over the rounder bouts at saltend and Vicky dock estate are sinking. Also the road over the drain near the King George dock is falling into it and has had emergency work on it for the last two months.

Its all within the view of Mr Prescotts house for some reason!!

I do, regularly, as well as the rest of East Yorks, on everything from Motorways to single track roads you can barely get a car down, and I'm still of the opinion you are wrong, the ones that are there are generally on unlit corners, the intention being to minimise the risk of people driving off the roads and into the fields/ditches at night.